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Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity

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Eric Sorensen examines how religious tradition is maintained when in conflict with social convention. The author is specifically interested in how Christianity overcame stigmas of magic and superstition in its practice of exorcism as it extended into Greek and Roman areas of Christian mission. Using an historical-critical approach, he argues for three principal factors at work in confirming the exorcist's place in religious society: cultural adaptation , a tradition of exorcism founded upon authoritative scriptural example, and innovative theological interpretations applied to that tradition.Eric Sorensen proposes that the exorcist's role was adapted in part by Christianity's interpretation of demonic possession relative to the concept of divine possession long familiar to Greco-Roman sensibilities. Early Christians found a suitable metaphor to express this correlation in the doctrine of the Two Ways, which itself had literary antecedents both in Greek literature and in Christianity's own scriptural tradition.

Pages: 295

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Release: November 01, 2002

ISBN: 3161478517

ISBN 13: 9783161478512

Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity

5/5 ( ratings)

Eric Sorensen examines how religious tradition is maintained when in conflict with social convention. The author is specifically interested in how Christianity overcame stigmas of magic and superstition in its practice of exorcism as it extended into Greek and Roman areas of Christian mission. Using an historical-critical approach, he argues for three principal factors at work in confirming the exorcist's place in religious society: cultural adaptation , a tradition of exorcism founded upon authoritative scriptural example, and innovative theological interpretations applied to that tradition.Eric Sorensen proposes that the exorcist's role was adapted in part by Christianity's interpretation of demonic possession relative to the concept of divine possession long familiar to Greco-Roman sensibilities. Early Christians found a suitable metaphor to express this correlation in the doctrine of the Two Ways, which itself had literary antecedents both in Greek literature and in Christianity's own scriptural tradition.

Pages: 295

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Release: November 01, 2002

ISBN: 3161478517

ISBN 13: 9783161478512

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